Prince required but slight attention, lacking energy for superfluous movements of any sort. With no longer a companion to distract her, Tess fell more deeply into reverie than ever, her back leaning against the hives. The mute procession past her shoulders of trees and hedges became attached to fantastic scenes outside reality, and the occasional heave of the wind became the sigh of some immense sad soul, conterminous with the universe in space, and with history in time.
王子沒有力氣作任何不必要的動作，所以根本不需要照看。她的同伴不再打攪她，她就向后靠在蜂箱上，比以前更加深沉地思索起來。無聲的樹木和樹籬從身邊掠過，變成了現(xiàn)實以外幻想景物中的東西，偶爾刮起的風(fēng)聲，也變成了某個巨大的悲傷的靈魂的嘆息，在空間上同宇宙連在一起，在時間上同歷史連在一起。

Then, examining the mesh of events in her own life, she seemed to see the vanity of her father's pride; the gentlemanly suitor awaiting herself in her mother's fancy; to see him as a grimacing personage, laughing at her poverty, and her shrouded knightly ancestry. Everything grew more and more extravagant, and she no longer knew how time passed. A sudden jerk shook her in her seat, and Tess awoke from the sleep into which she, too, had fallen.
接著，她仔細(xì)地回想了自己一生中紛亂無序的事情，似乎看見她父親驕傲中的虛榮；在她母親的幻想里，她看到了那個向她求婚的紳士模樣的人；看見他像是一個怪笑著的怪人，在嘲笑她的貧窮，嘲笑她的已成枯骨的騎士祖先。一切都變得越來越荒誕離奇，她再也不知道時間是怎樣過去的了。馬車猛地把她的座位一震，苔絲才從睡夢中醒來，原來她也睡著了。

They were a long way further on than when she had lost consciousness, and the waggon had stopped. A hollow groan, unlike anything she had ever heard in her life, came from the front, followed by a shout of 'Hoi there!'
苔絲睡著以后，他們已經(jīng)向前走了很長一段路，現(xiàn)在馬車停了下來。前面?zhèn)鱽硪魂囂撊醯纳胍?，她一生中從來沒有聽見過那種聲音，跟著又傳來一聲“喲，怎么回事”的喊叫。

The lantern hanging at her waggon had gone out, but another was shining in her face - much brighter than her own had been. Something terrible had happened. The harness was entangled with an object which blocked the way.
掛在馬車旁邊的提燈已經(jīng)不見了，但是有另外一個提燈在她的眼前閃著亮光，比她自己那個提燈要明亮得多。有件可怕的事情發(fā)生了。馬具也同擋在路上的什么東西纏在一起。

In consternation Tess jumped down, and discovered the dreadful truth. The groan had proceeded from her father's poor horse Prince. The morning mail-cart, with its two noiseless wheels, speeding along these lanes like an arrow, as it always did, had driven into her slow and unlighted equipage. The pointed shaft of the cart had entered the breast of the unhappy Prince like a sword, and from the wound his life's blood was spouting in a stream, and falling with a hiss into the road.
苔絲大驚失色，跳下車來，看見了可怕的事情。呻吟聲是從她父親的可憐老馬王子口中發(fā)出來的。一輛早班郵車驅(qū)動著它的兩個無聲無息的車輪，沿著這些單行車道像箭一樣飛速駛來，幾乎跟她這輛行走緩慢沒有燈光的馬車撞在了一起。郵車的尖把就像一把利劍，刺進(jìn)了不幸王子的胸膛，它的生命的熱血像溪流一樣從傷口噴射而出，帶著咝咝聲落到地上。

In her despair Tess sprang forward and put her hand upon the hole, with the only result that she became splashed from face to skirt with the crimson drops. Then she stood helplessly looking on. Prince also stood firm and motionless as long as he could; till he suddenly sank down in a heap.
苔絲在絕望中跑上前去，用手捂住那個洞口，唯一的結(jié)果只是她的臉上和裙子上都被噴上了殷紅色的血跡。后來她只好站起來絕望地看著。王子也盡力一動也不動地堅強站著，直到突然倒在地上，癱成了一堆。